EXCELSIOR !

Learning curve going up once again as I endeavor to learn new things. Been creating more docs for work projects, and with the new "regime change" pending am busy gathering statistics up the wazoo to justify my existence. Live and Die by the numbers.....
As a reward for my doggedness in the Lib Web 2.0 classes the organizers have awarded me my own 1 gigabyte thumb drive! I promptly put that to work last week in an afternoon seminar called "Camtasia", which taught us the fundamentals of screencasting. So now I can honestly say that I have "done a video" by creating a mock-up of a training segment for the library.
Just got the sign-up info for the Library Support Staff Seminar to be held in Newport this July, so it looks like I will be going for a night out on the coast. Been a couple years since my buddy George and I took a trip to see the Hatfield Acquarium and the Air Museum up the coast. I still smile thinking about how the sea lions like to cruise through the water on their backs!
Had good fortune recently. My storage rental came due in the middle of the week(July 8) and I spaced it out totally. I usually sign up for several months at a time. So I figure that maybe now is the time for me to hit George up for a trip to storage with his truck and just get the hell out. In any case I was going to go up there on the 12th one way or another. So that Saturday I get a call from James and Shirley that George is there and this might be the time to go for broke (instead of going broke paying ro the rental) and yank the stuff. He was willing and we were done in an hour and a half max. Didn't even have to pay any late fees. They just said either pay for another month or get out, so I said OUT!
My studies continue apace. Cruising through the 30 Year's War looking for my Polish boys.Sometimes they are fighting in the big battles, like Ernst Donhoff at Lutzen 1632, while others are fighting for the French farther west, like the Rosens who came over with Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in 1635 and settled in Alsace One of them, Conrad, was KIA in Ireland 1690 as Lt. General of the Jacobite forces. Trying to think of a scaled down version of "The Project" that can be published in bits and pieces.